1. Generally, the tributes for the Hungry Ghost Festival include meat, fruits, cakes, candies and wine. Common tributes are pig head meat, chicken, duck, fish, and white wine. The quantity requirement for placing tributes during the Hungry Ghost Festival is an odd number, especially when placing fruits, you must pay attention. The tributes on the Hungry Ghost Festival cannot be eaten after the sacrifices are made. These are given to ancestors or deceased friends. Eating the tributes offered during the Hungry Ghost Festival has a bad connotation.
2. When offering sacrifices on the Hungry Ghost Festival, you must bring paper money (or ingots), incense candles, tributes and fine wine. Paper money is used to burn to ancestors. In the past, it was usually made of yellow fire paper. The yellow color of the fire paper represents respect for the ancients. There are also money stamps printed on the fire paper to represent the authenticity of the money. The ancestors will adopt the money after taking it. It is most useful if you have to take it off.
3. The meaning of incense candles: It is to light the way home for ancestors, so that they will not be unable to see the way when they come back to collect money and enjoy tributes. After placing the tributes during the sacrifice, don't forget to prepare a bowl of mellow white wine and pour it first on the burned paper money so that the ancestors can enjoy it.
4. Taboos during the Hungry Ghost Festival: According to folklore, ghosts return to the world on the Hungry Ghost Festival, so it is recommended that you try not to go to temples, car accidents, murder disaster sites, or waterside places during the Hungry Ghost Festival. Sparsely populated places such as crematoriums, hospitals and underground parking lots. The yin energy on the Ghost Festival is too strong. It is said that going to these places will easily attract evil spirits. There is also a folk saying that you should not go out on the night of the Ghost Festival. It is recommended that if you need to go out, it is best to return home before twelve o'clock!